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Today, Explained

Chasing the storm

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Rigsby has built a career out of documenting tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme weather up close. So he’s seen just how much more extreme those storms are becoming. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by David Pierce. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh my God, yeah. We have just had the busiest stretch of severe weather that I've ever had in my 14 years of storm chasing and like that's saying something because it was like someone flipped on a light switch and just forgot to turn it off.

0:14.3

Leading up to the year, March and February, we're pretty slow, which doesn't seem like your typical

0:19.1

tornado months, but they are. After April 26, there was a big tornado outbreak in Nebraska and Iowa with over 100 tornado reports.

0:26.5

Whole trees in the air.

0:28.0

Whole trees!

0:30.0

Oh no, it's hitting town.

0:32.2

Oh my God. I saw 12 plus tornadoes that day on three different storms because they were so

0:37.3

clustered together and that was by far the longest duration chase and the most tornadoes I've seen in one day.

0:44.4

Tornado season is here and it's changing. Coming up on today explained how a

0:49.3

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1:06.9

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1:11.8

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